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I’ve been working on this for a few years now, and still have a couple of years to go I reckon.
I’m creating a glossy coffee-table type book. The subject is the Isle of Skye between sunset and sunrise. It’s a mixture of landscape, culture and work life, so a good variation of imagery and contexts. I’m nearly complete with the landscape content, and moving onto the work life content at the moment (but not ignoring other opportunities that arise). The intention is to sell the book up here on Skye, and through Amazon and the website, with all profits to the Skye Mountain Rescue Team.
The project came about after quite a hiatus from serious photography. I lost the urge, had no motivation, and basically couldn’t be arsed. I think I was all photographed-out after about 15 intense years of fascination and adventures. I was quite sad about it, but simply didn’t have any interest. The hiatus was a bit of a downer as part of the reason for me buying a do-er upper to live in on Skye was to enjoy photographing stuff. After 3-4 years, in the middle of winter when there’s a lot of night up here, I thought “why not try photographing things at night” and so the project was born. Plus, there are so many photographs taken of this place that it’s hard to get anything new, but there’s not a lot taken at night. And night time brings many opportunities for creativity with light trails, flashes, long exposures etc.
I’ve got a website up and running, Insta just starting (to get more prolific as I come to publishing time) and TikTok & Facebook profiles ready to rock (no idea what I’m doing there tbh). I’ve also got a Youtube channel with some short behind-the-scenes videos which are mainly intended to be linked to from pages in the book using QR codes, rather than trying to be a new Thomas Heaton or Nigel Danson.
I’ll share a few images and stories in this thread. I’m always interested in feedback, and new ideas so feel free. If you’ve got any experience creating photobooks for general sale (rather than one-offs) please chip in.
Here are two to get started with, both light trail focused.
#1 Here’s a shot of Boreraig, which is a cleared township a few miles up a path from the road to Elgol. The intention of this one is to reflect on the lives of the people who lived in these houses, and their spirits still being there with fires burning in the hearths and smoke rising up from them.
#2 is the Quirang. It took about 3 years before I could get this shot, as it needed a clear night, the Milky Way in the right place, no moon, and time to get up to the top of the island. This was taken at about 1am, and there aren’t many cars about at that time, let alone any going up the Quirang road. I had to leave the camera shooting on the interval mode, get in my car, and drive up and down about 10 times. Much fun! The final image is a blend of a 12 sec sky shot and 3 light trail shots.
Thanks for taking enough interest to get this far!
Andy
I’m creating a glossy coffee-table type book. The subject is the Isle of Skye between sunset and sunrise. It’s a mixture of landscape, culture and work life, so a good variation of imagery and contexts. I’m nearly complete with the landscape content, and moving onto the work life content at the moment (but not ignoring other opportunities that arise). The intention is to sell the book up here on Skye, and through Amazon and the website, with all profits to the Skye Mountain Rescue Team.
The project came about after quite a hiatus from serious photography. I lost the urge, had no motivation, and basically couldn’t be arsed. I think I was all photographed-out after about 15 intense years of fascination and adventures. I was quite sad about it, but simply didn’t have any interest. The hiatus was a bit of a downer as part of the reason for me buying a do-er upper to live in on Skye was to enjoy photographing stuff. After 3-4 years, in the middle of winter when there’s a lot of night up here, I thought “why not try photographing things at night” and so the project was born. Plus, there are so many photographs taken of this place that it’s hard to get anything new, but there’s not a lot taken at night. And night time brings many opportunities for creativity with light trails, flashes, long exposures etc.
I’ve got a website up and running, Insta just starting (to get more prolific as I come to publishing time) and TikTok & Facebook profiles ready to rock (no idea what I’m doing there tbh). I’ve also got a Youtube channel with some short behind-the-scenes videos which are mainly intended to be linked to from pages in the book using QR codes, rather than trying to be a new Thomas Heaton or Nigel Danson.
I’ll share a few images and stories in this thread. I’m always interested in feedback, and new ideas so feel free. If you’ve got any experience creating photobooks for general sale (rather than one-offs) please chip in.
Here are two to get started with, both light trail focused.
#1 Here’s a shot of Boreraig, which is a cleared township a few miles up a path from the road to Elgol. The intention of this one is to reflect on the lives of the people who lived in these houses, and their spirits still being there with fires burning in the hearths and smoke rising up from them.
#2 is the Quirang. It took about 3 years before I could get this shot, as it needed a clear night, the Milky Way in the right place, no moon, and time to get up to the top of the island. This was taken at about 1am, and there aren’t many cars about at that time, let alone any going up the Quirang road. I had to leave the camera shooting on the interval mode, get in my car, and drive up and down about 10 times. Much fun! The final image is a blend of a 12 sec sky shot and 3 light trail shots.
Thanks for taking enough interest to get this far!
Andy